Example sentences of "sort of [adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that sort of humbling remark that sums up what Dreamflight is all about . |
| 2 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 3 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 4 | Only if would-be parents fully understand about mental handicap can they make the right sort of rational decisions when faced with these circumstances and face the situation with a true sense of proportion . |
| 5 | In Symbolist poetry and primitive life , they found a sort of rapturous vision where living and dead appeared to unite . |
| 6 | It was n't the sort of long-term depression that had settled on him when his wife persuaded him to take her on holiday to Marbella . |
| 7 | The streets are busy but safe , and the sort of professional thieving that makes Lima a nightmare does not seem to exist . |
| 8 | Audrey Slaughter has led the sort of varied life that gives her the experience and understanding for dealing with SHE readers ' personal problems . |
| 9 | But without the sort of big-money sponsorship that goes to the men 's game the women are having to spend precious time fund-raising rather than concentrating on their playing . |
| 10 | Elephant conservation was not a top priority , nor was the sort of environmental planning that takes into consideration the needs of wildlife as well as those of humans . |
| 11 | ‘ The wizard said that the little man had some sort of golden disc that told him the time , ’ said the Weasel . |
| 12 | The Thing had said there were ways of growing plants under lights the same colour as the sun , in pots full of a sort of weak soup that helped plants grow . |
| 13 | Perhaps what is needed is more knowledge about what exists already and some sort of in-school organisation that facilitates access . |
| 14 | in London in , in a sort of clever way that makes it sound as though there 's some terrific good reasoning for it |
| 15 | Under their new paymasters , filmmakers were no longer interested in the sort of inner tensions that work at the heart of the more intense and exciting British films . |
| 16 | ‘ Cake ’ craftily samples Kate Bush and is the sort of subtle start that makes you pant for more . |
| 17 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 18 | Will my right hon. Friend have a word with our right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary about utilising the British information services to maximum effect , especially in north America , in the hope of cutting off the supply of money , sympathy and support for the sort of depraved attack that occurred on Saturday , and to show IRA sympathisers in America precisely what is happening ? |
| 19 | REVERBERATION is the sort of multiple echo that occurs when music is performed in a large hall . |
| 20 | And every time he came anywhere near her he seemed to generate a sort of static electricity that left her feeling angry and confused . |
| 21 | Early fifties , thinning black hair , the unmistakeable signs of middle-age spread and the sort of doleful features that gave the impression he was carrying the troubles of the world on his shoulders . |
| 22 | Most are working in central London , some also in one or two other major cities , since it is only there that the sort of prestigious hotels and banqueting suites which can mount an almost unbroken series of events are to be found . |
| 23 | This way , it is possible to make a sort of controlled flop and avoid any damage to kite or third party ( see page 164 ) . |
| 24 | It had become a sort of trouble-shooting body that had been put in to try and dish the Foreign Office and got a bloody nose . |
| 25 | We were called out in the middle of the night to man the Bund ( a sort of wide wall that encircled the entire camp ) . |
| 26 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , at the North Shore University Hospital on Long Island , Henry Perry has , at Dr Golub 's suggestion , used a different tetracycline derivative on another sort of unwanted growth that requires collagenase : germ-free corneal ulcers . |
| 28 | He was still looking at her ; appraisingly , with a sort of lazy sensuality that made something inside her twist tight . |
| 29 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 30 | When there is a different purse and a different bureaucratic structure , it is much less easy to have the sort of fruitful relationship that exists between , for example , St. Kentigern 's school at Blackburn and the Oatridge agricultural college . |